Coaches as Phenomenologists: Para-Ethnographic Work in Sport
G Downey Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Asso... 2008
If performance studies is to explore sports from the perspective of athletes, coaches form a potential pool of allies as they are engaged in their own ‘para-ethnographic’ studies of athletes’ performance. This paper examines developmental coaching, that is, the teaching of skills, as a form of applied phenomenology, drawing on examples fr...
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